Need a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel approach to increase your productivity and efficiency in all walks of life? Then you need life hacks! Read Hacking life on social media for a description of life […]

Driving twenty-one hours from Arizona to Washington makes one wonder, “How did the westward expansion pioneers cross endless miles of Nevada sagebrush with their minds intact without Sirius satellite radio and GPS?” One asks, “When […]

Need a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel approach to increase your productivity and efficiency in all walks of life? Hot off the online presses, here are 9 articles to help. To improve your social media […]

You want to be physically fit, right? Imagine your ideal self full of energy and swagger. Gorgeous. Now, there’s something standing in between you and gorgeous which needs to be stared down. Competing priorities. Or […]

Having a summer of joy, regrets, and a steep learning curve, has its natural consequences. For example, without thought, a part-time blogger can become a part-part-part-time blogger in a hot second. And a social media […]

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midlife, social media, and getting things done

“Midlife is the time to let go of an over-dominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.” ~ C.G. Jung

“Social media is not just an activity; it is an investment of valuable time and resources. Surround yourself with people who not just support you and stay with you, but inform your thinking about ways to WOW your online presence” ~ Sean Gardner

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle

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My Day Job: Arizona Performance Psychology

“I think the real competitive advantage now is in player development-understanding that your young players are human beings,” Jake Epstein, President of the Cubs, said in a recent article. It shouldn’t sound like a novel idea, but in many ways it is. The world of athletics has long overlooked performance psychology techniques in favor of […]

Need a boost to achieve more? Healthy stress levels can actually help sharpen your mind and push you to peak performance. Too much stress, though, has the opposite effect and can strain your heart and increase the risk of chronic disease. We should all invest time into learning how to manage our stress levels because […]

Unlike other celebrities, we see an athlete’s failures in high-definition. Their slumps and falls and injuries are watched closely, and then replayed on SportsCenter in case anyone missed it. Sure, we hear about actors and actresses getting divorced or going on a bender – but it’s usually in a sketchy tabloid magazine. Failure and athletics […]

“Go with the flow,” a reminder to not stress in uncontrollable situations, shouldn’t be confused with flow, a term that means being “completely immersed in an activity for its own sake.” The term is relatively new, but what it represents is age-old. It became a buzzword in the 1980s and 1990s and continues to be […]

Yogi Berra, one of the great catchers of all time and endless fountain of inspiring and funny quotes, died last night. He was 90. Berra won the MVP award three times — the only other catcher to do this is Roy Campanella — and was the proud owner of 10 World Series rings.. Berra is a member […]